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Ms. Heiser from Chicago IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bright Tomorrow Book Borrow

My students need high quality literature to explore!

  • $847 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Each day, my students walk into my classroom full of wonder and potential. My school is located on the south side of Chicago and as a teacher, in a high poverty area, my goal is to tap into that promise! My hope is to provide books for them to borrow to bridge the ever-widening economic achievement gap.

One of the best indicators of academic success is how much children are read to at home.

Sadly, many of the families I serve do not have books. In my classroom, children are able to take books home each week to read and return the following week. By providing books for my students, I know they can grow academically and create a love of reading that will last a lifetime.

My Project

Reading to preschool aged children creates the foundation for lifelong success. By donating to my project, you can help make that happen! My classroom will receive beautiful, new books that I will read to the class and the children will be able to borrow and return weekly. The books I have requested are culturally rich. They relate to our units of study and are of great interest to growing brains!

Reading aloud encourages their relationship building, academic aptitude, speech and language development and increased concentration in young children.

These books will also encourage parents to read with their children each day and make positive connections to their children's academic achievement. There are few things in children's cognitive development that are more important than reading, and we need your help to ensure that can happen!

Ms. Heiser
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
How Bees Make Honey (The Big Picture: Food) • Amazon Business $24.40 1 $24.40
Cat And Rat (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $19.65 1 $19.65
The Reason For A Flower: A Book About Flowers, Pollen, And Seeds (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Ruth Heller's World of Nature) • Amazon Business $19.65 1 $19.65
I'll Follow the Moon • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
Jack and the Beanstalk • Amazon Business $18.88 1 $18.88
I Miss You : A First Look at Death (First Look At Books) • Amazon Business $18.40 1 $18.40
Outside Over There (Caldecott Collection) • Amazon Business $18.18 1 $18.18
Sea Turtles • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
Children's Book of Art • Amazon Business $16.93 1 $16.93
Flight of the Honey Bee • Amazon Business $16.28 1 $16.28
Sow and Grow: A Gardening Book for Children • Amazon Business $16.26 1 $16.26
Jill & Dragon • Amazon Business $16.09 1 $16.09
Turtle Time: A Children's Photo Story about Flatback Sea Turtles • Amazon Business $15.95 1 $15.95
The Bee Tree • Amazon Business $15.57 1 $15.57
Little Red Riding Hood • Amazon Business $14.58 1 $14.58
Child's Introduction to Art: The World's Greatest Paintings and Sculptures • Amazon Business $14.15 1 $14.15
The Invisible String • Amazon Business $13.96 1 $13.96
All the Water in the World • Amazon Business $13.87 1 $13.87
The Tea Party in the Woods • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
The Curious Garden • Amazon Business $13.53 1 $13.53
The Three Snow Bears • Amazon Business $13.51 1 $13.51
Forever Young • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Whoever You Are • Amazon Business $13.12 1 $13.12
Goldilocks and the Three Bears • Amazon Business $13.03 1 $13.03
Beyond the Pond • Amazon Business $12.83 1 $12.83
Home • Amazon Business $12.81 1 $12.81
Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors • Amazon Business $12.67 1 $12.67
The Little Gardener • Amazon Business $12.56 1 $12.56
What a Wonderful World • Amazon Business $12.37 1 $12.37
Death Is Stupid (Ordinary Terrible Things) • Amazon Business $12.13 1 $12.13
Little Honeybee • Amazon Business $11.86 1 $11.86
The Whisper • Amazon Business $11.80 1 $11.80
Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! (City Lights/Sister Spit) • Amazon Business $11.72 1 $11.72
All Families Are Special • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
Ada Twist, Scientist • Amazon Business $11.21 1 $11.21
Beautiful Oops! • Amazon Business $11.15 1 $11.15
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site • Amazon Business $10.83 1 $10.83
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $10.72 1 $10.72
Rosie Revere, Engineer • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs: As Retold by Mo Willems • Amazon Business $10.46 1 $10.46
Not a Box • Amazon Business $9.07 1 $9.07
Cuckoo/Cuc£: A Mexican Folktale/Un cuento folkl¢rico mexicano • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
The Colors of Us • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Cool Drink of Water (Barbara Kerley Photo Inspirations) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Little Red Riding Hood Stories Around the World: 3 Beloved Tales (Multicultural Fairy Tales) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Little Red Riding Hood • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Ish (Creatrilogy) • Amazon Business $7.74 1 $7.74
Counting on Community • Amazon Business $7.34 1 $7.34
The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Water • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Honey in a Hive (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Construction • Amazon Business $5.60 1 $5.60
Roadwork • Amazon Business $5.54 1 $5.54
The Turkey Ball • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$675.33

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.13

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$719.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$126.96

Total project goal

$846.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $846.41

19 Donors

-$832.65

Donations toward project cost

-$719.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$113.20

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.76

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